Meta sued by Eminem’s publishing company over alleged copyright infringement
Eight Mile Style, a company that has some of the most popular songs in Eminem, continues the Meta social media giant concerning an alleged copyright violation.
The trial, filed before a federal court in Michigan, accuses the technological company based in Menlo Park to store, reproduce and distribute the music of Eminem without obtaining the license to do so.
The eight -mile style, based in Ferndale, Michigan, is looking for at least $ 109 million with Meta and a court order to arrest several alleged forms of copyright.
Music is a large part of social media. On Meta platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, people add music to photos and videos they share publicly or with their friends and family.
But the way social media has changed the way people listen to and discover new songs have also aroused concerns on the part of artists as to whether they are quite remunerated.
“The violation of the years of meta for the years and during the compositions of eight miles is another case of a dollar billion (with a” T “company) exploiting the creative efforts of musical artists for the obscene monetary benefit of its leaders and shareholders without license and without regard to the rights of the owners of intellectual property,” said the trial.
Meta said in a statement that he had licenses with thousands of partners worldwide and global license programs “extended” for music on her platforms.
“Meta had negotiated in good faith with an eight-thousand style, but rather than continuing these discussions, the eight-mile style has chosen to continue,” said the company in an email.
Eight Mile Style has and controls 243 compositions recorded by Eminem, a rapper and music producer who created popular successes such as “Lose Yourself”. Meta has removed some of these songs, notably “Lose Yourself” from its musical libraries, but other versions of music, including instrumental piano coverage and a version of Karaoke, remain on the platform, depending on the trial.
Meta not only allowed users who download these songs to violate copyright, but stored knowingly and reproduce them in its musical libraries so that users can use music in videos and photos, depending on the trial. Users have added Eminem music to millions of videos that have been visualized billions of times, according to the trial.
Meta also tried without success to obtain a license for Eminem’s songs as part of the negotiations with the Audiam digital music royalty company, even if the company did not have the power to give them this license.
“The metadata has actively encouraged such a creeping violation in order to attract as many users as possible, among other things, to render advertising more profitable for themselves,” said the trial.
More than 3 billion people use Meta’s applications daily, and the company earns billions of dollars each quarter of advertising.
In the first three months of this year, Meta’s revenues reached $ 42.31 billion, an increase of 16% in annual shift. The company’s net profit jumped 35% to $ 16.6 billion in the first quarter.
This is not the first time that Meta has faced legal problems on the use of Eminem music. In 2013, eight Mile Style continued Facebook, alleging that the social network used the song Eminem “Under the Influence” for an announcement without their consent.
